VMware Workstation 7.1 extremely slow start WinXP32 comments

The problem is that the guest OS starts very slowly.  From the moment the power on button is pressed when it goes to windows

Office and all the tray icons loaded, it takes 4 minutes.  While in the comments, things very slow feeling, menus and windows takes a long time to open up, buttons respond slowly, etc.  The system is unable to use interactively.

Exactly the same configuration on VirtualBox starts in 35 seconds.  The virtual VMware and Virtualbox machine is on the same disk hard drive as the bottleneck, which eliminates.

Video 3 minute demo showing the comparison between VMware and VirtualBox.

http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=mLPgVxlw7m0

Note that the mark of 1 minute, VirtualBox went to Windows desktop already that VMware will not get on the occasion of up to 3 minutes.

Note that there is no other other than the VMware and Virtualbox virtual machines running those...

Host of OS = Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition

Server has 4 CPU (Opteron 8347 2.0 Ghz), each with 4 cores (16 cores in total)

8 GB RAM

Guest OS = Windows XP SP3 32-bit

vCPU = 2 to 4 cores each (8 cores in total)

1 GB of RAM

Guest operating system has been installed with all what default values.  For VMware, used Easy Install from VMware.  Nothing else significant running on the host computer.  Host operating system feels very sensitive.  Simple installation without Windows updates; However, additions of comments have been installed.

Can someone tell me what could be the reason that VMware is so slow?

Thank you for your help.

If this unique virtual machine is vital - I would consider it in UK on an ESXi
ESXi evolves much better than the workstation when several vCPUs are needed

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